Did you see that match?

[andegre]

Now you can via WrestleStat!

With the risk of not getting done one major piece of the re-write before the season starts, I sacrificed one night of work and did something else for fun. You can now add/watch YouTube videos of matches directly from WrestleStat.

When viewing the match results on a wrestlers page, there's now an "action" button (similar to the one on the team roster pages) where you can add a YouTube link to a particular match. Once a link is saved and approved, there will be a link next to the respective match result on the wrestlers profile page that will navigate you in a new window to the YouTube match.

This is another way where I'm trying to make it more enjoyable and easier for wrestling fans to get information on their favorite wrestlers. I know personally I'm more likely to look at these matches if there's a direct link to watch the videos....I'm lazy.

I went ahead and added at least 1 match video for each of the top wrestlers, according to WrestleStat's rankings.

Here's a link to each of the wrestlers profiles pages where you can start watching/adding videos:

Thomas Gilman - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/13245/gilman-thomas
Nathan Tomasello - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/14674/tomasello-nathan
Dean Heil - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/15376/heil-dean
Zain Retherford - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/11781/retherford-zain
Jason Nolf - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/20303/nolf-jason
Isaiah Martinez - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/13466/martinez-isaiah
Bo Jordan - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/14840/jordan-bo
Gabe Dean - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/12580/dean-gabe
J'Den Cox - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/13114/cox-jden
Kyle Snyder - http://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/profile/20253/snyder-kyle

 

[tikk10]

That is a seriously great idea, thanks Andegre.

There's a website dedicated to hockey fights that has developed along similar lines. If you want ideas down the road, it's not a bad place to look. Here's a sample page.

 

[AgSurfer]

One suggestion:

You'll need to grow your video database to do this, but it would be cool to be able to put in the names of two wrestlers and bring up a video of them going against each other if a video exists.

 

[andegre]

One suggestion:

You'll need to grow your video database to do this, but it would be cool to be able to put in the names of two wrestlers and bring up a video of them going against each other if a video exists.

Very true. Actually, adding that functionality will be very easy. Since the search functionality on the website is powered by Google Search, I just need to create a single page for each video clip (which is VERY easy) and google's bots (the things that google uses to index all web pages on the internet) will take over and have it start showing up in the search results.

 

[andegre]

One suggestion:

You'll need to grow your video database to do this, but it would be cool to be able to put in the names of two wrestlers and bring up a video of them going against each other if a video exists.

By the way, the database IS growing at a pretty rapid pace. Lots of users have been adding videos...pretty cool to see the immediate feedback and excitement about this new feature.

Since I can't get to YouTube from work, it's hard for me to find time to add videos, but the little I've done from my phone today, there's ENDLESS work to be done adding these new videos. I'm going to try and take some time each night I do code changes to also add videos...